Five Industrial Design students were recognized in the 2024 International Design Awards: Sean Lin, MID ’24, received Silver in Personal & Lifestyle/Health & Wellness Products for his project “Resilience Strategy – The Vibroacoustic Vest”; Weiqi Revive Sun, MID ’25, received Silver in Conceptual Products/Office & Work for his project “Stretch Go”; Linghui Ding, MID ’25, received Silver in Conceptual Products/Electronics for her project “Flat”; Siyu Steven Xiao, BID ’24, won Bronze in Automotive & Transport for his project “MedDash”; and Jenny Shan, BID ’25, received Honorable Mention for her project “The World in My Kitchen.”
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“Youth Participatory Politics: Understanding and Supporting Civic Engagement in the Social Media Era,” co-authored by Assistant Professor in the School of Information Ashley Lee, was published in Handbook of Children and Screens (Springer). Lee also participated in an invited workshop on Global Platform Accountability at New York University. The workshop was held to encourage social engagement in scholarship on global tech power and to generate transnational synergies between scholars and practitioners.
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Judith Solodkin, visiting associate professor of fine arts, was interviewed for Christie’s. Solodkin talks about working with Louise Bourgeois, printmaking as collaboration, and being a woman in the arts in the ’70s. “I really love making prints, and I love doing it with artists. So as long as I could do that, I was very happy.”
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Chair of Undergraduate Architecture Stephen Slaughter served as a juror for the SOM Foundation 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award and the ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. Slaughter reflected on the experience for the School of Architecture News Page: “This was the most difficult jury I have ever participated in. I found myself deeply moved by both the students’ essays and videos, wavering between the value of merit and the value of need. Seeing how accomplished, compelling, and beautiful the work was only made my deliberations more challenging.”
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Greg Drasler; Assistant Professor of Film/Video Chris Radcliff; and Adjunct Associate Professor of Fashion Design Kerry Ryan have been selected for the Siena Art Institute 2025 Faculty Residency Award. The Fellows will spend the month of June in Italy.
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Design firm A+A+A — co-founded by Visiting Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ashley Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14; former Taconic Fellow Andrea Chiney, and Arianna Deane — has been honored as a 2025 “New Practices New York” emerging firm by AIANY. The winners were recognized for their “distinctive voice in engaging the critical issues that are relevant now.”
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An exhibition by Jen Mazza, visiting associate professor of Fine Arts, was reviewed in Dart Magazine. “Mazza’s poetic conceptualism works like poetry itself, placing one image adjacent to the next, and allowing their energetic conjunction to conjure something new in our consciousness,” writes John Mendelsohn. In conjunction with her exhibition, Mazza will be in conversation with Eric Dean Wilson at Ulterior Gallery.
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Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann, along with graduate assistants Yuanhao Wu, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’25, and Nathan Smash, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’24, produced statistics and maps focused on housing data for the exhibition Collective Mobilities by Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Alex Strada. The exhibition runs through March 9 in DeKalb Gallery on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus.
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Visiting Professor of Art and Design Education Theodora Skipitares is mentioned in a recent New Yorker article about the gallery 15 Orient and the sculptor Jilaine Jones. Hilton Als describes Skipitares as “masterly” and notes that her “gothic puppets, stage designs, and other creations seemed to enhance the building’s gorgeous erosion.”
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PCOMM partnered with New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler where he wrote an op-ed in Crain’s New York Business celebrating the partnership between Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation as “an exciting example of how academic institutions can continue driving innovation, leading to the creation of new businesses that help fuel our local economy.” In the article, Restler explores the creative synergies at the Research Yard and Dock 72, writing that “by linking young creatives directly to the businesses that can help bring their ideas to life, Dock 72 is not only nurturing the next generation of creatives, but modeling how research institutions and businesses can collaborate to generate real-world impact on a local and potentially global scale.”
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